The number of students in the county has decreased from 170,000 at its peak to 120,000, due to family-planning policies and urbanization, he said.Consequently, many village-based schools are closed, and students must go to school far from home, he said.Education experts warned growing numbers of rural students nationwide are facing dangers as they take illegal vehicles to get to school."Traffic accidents have become dire killers of the country's rural students, who rush between home and school every day," Xiong Bingqi, deputy director of the Beijing-based 21st Century Education Research Institute, told China Daily on Thursday."The root problem is the tight education budgets rather than the safety awareness of victim's parents," he said.He said government investment in campus security is far from enough, and school vehicles should be included in the budgets of local governments' compulsory education funds.The Ministry of Public Security on Thursday began a one-month inspection of school bus security in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and other relevant government departments. The past 12 months saw the most instances of extreme weather in a decade, China's meteorological authority said on Thursday.he number of extreme weather events in China has been increasing since 2000. These include extremely high and low temperatures, rainstorms and typhoons.The country witnessed the most number of such events and suffered the most serious consequences in 2010, China Meteorological Administration (CMA) said at a news conference on Thursday.This summer, the average highest temperature across China was the highest since 1961, with an average 9.7 days with the highest temperature at or above 35 C, 3.5 days more than in previous years.Extreme rainstorms followed the hot weather. Ninety-seven weather stations around China reported record-breaking daily rainfall, and 133 stations broke their annual records. Only seven record-breaking daily rainfall figures were reported from 2000 to 2009.Moreover, more than half of the tropical hurricanes formed typhoons and hit coastal regions in East and South China, marking the highest landfall ratio in history.

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The children were from Dongtang village and were traveling to school in neighboring Yinguo village when the vehicle ran off the road."Because the primary school in Dongtang had been ordered to close, we parents had to send our children to the school in Yinguo," Li Yuying, the mother of one of the dead students, was quoted as saying by Xinhua News Agency."We hired a driver to pick them up and take them to school."The local police said the three-wheeled vehicle is registered for carrying cargo."The driver admitted the accident's main cause was that the vehicle was overloaded with students," Yang Xiaozhong, a local traffic police official, was quoted by the Beijing Times on Thursday as saying."It was foggy when the accident happened," he said. "The vehicle was going too fast and spun out at a turn."Wang Fangming, a Chinese-language teacher at the victims' school, said the school did not have the money to buy and operate buses for the more than 150 students, who come from six villages."We suggested parents stop hiring that three-wheeled vehicle because of safety concerns, and we forbid it from entering campus," Wang said."The headmaster even had an argument with one of the victim's parents over that a few days ago."Beijing Times quoted the former director of the county's education bureau Wang Li as saying, "Most of the 249 rural schools in our county have no vehicle for schoolchildren."He was one of six education and traffic officials sacked on Tuesday over the accident.Also fired were Yang Shixin, a township government official in charge of traffic; Luo Shengli, an official of the county's transport bureau; Zhou Pin, a local traffic police officer; Chen Xin, head of Yinguo Primary School; and Chen Shaohua, head of the Songjiang Township Center School.The local traffic department's record shows the county has 68 registered school vehicles.

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The Ministry of Land and Resources said on its website on Thursday that local land and resources bureaus must strictly punish the listed companies.Developers who left land idle for more than a year but fewer than two must pay fines. Those who left land idle for more than two years must return the land, the ministry said.n addition, all listed real estate developers will be banned from participating in land auctions until the land they left idle is reused.Local land-use departments must provide timely updates on these developers and land, and make this information public through the ministry's website, it said.All of the developers on the list left land unused for at least two years. One parcel in Zhangzhou, Fujian province, has remained idle since Aug 22, 1993, and will be reclaimed, the ministry said.The lands in Beijing should have been developed between 2003 and 2005, and those in Shanghai should have been put to use between 2001 and 2003, the list said.Three of the five Beijing parcels belonged to the State-owned China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation, or Sinopec. But on March 18, the State-owned Assets Supervision and the Administration Commission of the State Council ordered 78 central State-owned enterprises out of the housing market within 15 days.Only COSCO (China Ocean Shipping Company), the country's largest logistics company, said it would withdraw from the sector within half a year.The government has developed a series of stringent measures to control housing prices and curb land hoarding since 2009, as the housing market has overheated in many first- and second-tier cities.The ministry issued a directive on March 11, ordering developers to make a 50-percent down payment on all land they bought at auctions within a month of signing the purchasing contracts, or they lose the lands and their deposits.In December, Jia Kang, director of the Ministry of Finance's Research Institute for Fiscal Science, said the trial property tax plan, which targets recently purchased houses, may be implemented in some cities in 2011.Earlier this month, the leaders of 12 cities and counties with serious illegal land-use problems were invited to the Ministry of Land and Resources for a face-to-face discussion. Dismissal from office is the gravest punishment these officials face.Although stringent measures have been, or will be, taken, housing prices in 70 major cities in November were up 0.3 percent from October, the third straight month-on-month rise. They were 7.7 percent higher than a year ago, National Bureau of Statistics figures show.

Whole-year sales are expected to hit 18 million units in 2010, making the nation the world's largest auto market for a second year.The market increased by almost 30 percent this year, but analysts have predicted that it will slow to 10 to 15 percent or even lower in 2011, after Beijing recently launched a strict policy to curb car consumption.The Ministry of Finance on Tuesday announced that China will stop the two-year consumption-tax cuts for smaller cars."Effective from January 1, 2011, a sales tax of 10 percent will be imposed on cars with engines of 1.6-liters or smaller, from 5 percent in 2009 and 7.5 percent currently," said the ministry on its website. China's automobile market is expected to end its skyrocketing growth next year.That's after the government decided to cease incentive measures and began to curb the booming auto market in big cities in a bid to ease congestion."Don't be optimistic for China's automobile market next year," said Jia Xinguang, an independent auto analyst based in Beijing. "At the expiry of the stimulus measures, especially the tax policy, there will be a restructuring in the auto market in terms of engine capacity."Jia said that the automakers, especially domestic carmakers with models with engine capacities of 1.6 liters or less, will face a challenge in 2011."They have to make great efforts to improve quality and strengthen the brand of their cars," said Jia.China's total vehicle sales surged to 16.4 million in the 11 months through November, according to the China Automobile Industry Association.

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The foreign exchange regulator said 26 banks have been approved as spot market makers, including China Merchants Bank and China Minsheng Banking Corp, according to a statement posted on the website.Also, 18 lenders were approved by the regulator to become forwards and swap trading market makers, including Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.A market maker in the inter-bank foreign exchange market is a member in this market who undertakes the obligation of selling and buying prices of currencies to other members on a continuing basis. China introduced the market maker system in January 2006.China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) Thursday issued new guidelines on foreign exchange market makers and classified them into three types in a move aimed at increasing liquidity on China's foreign exchange market and boosting its development.Market makers are divided into spot trading market makers, forwards and swap trading market makers and comprehensive market makers, according to the new guidelines that would take effect on Jan 1, 2011. Fewer reporters were killed worldwide in 2010 than in the previous year, but media advocacy groups have warned that while the number slain in war zones has fallen, criminals and traffickers have become a greater threat to journalists.Fifty-seven reporters were killed around the world this year, the Paris-based media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders said Thursday in its annual report, down 25 percent from 2009, when 76 journalists were killed in connection with their jobs.Last year's record number of deaths was high because of a massacre in the Philippines that saw more than two dozen journalists and their staff gunned down.A separate report Thursday from the Brussels-based International Federation for Journalists said 94 journalist and other media personnel were killed in 2010, down from 139 in 2009. The federation count includes other employees of media organizations such as drivers, cameramen or producers.The insurgency in Pakistan claimed the most victims in 2010, according to both groups. Other dangerous beats included the drug war in Mexico and political unrest in Honduras. Iraq, the Philippines, and Somalia also ranked high.Media advocates stressed that while massacres like the one in the Philippines or the war in Iraq have pushed up the death toll in recent years, the number of journalists killed in domestic political conflicts has reached an alarmingly high level."This year, most of the journalists were killed in countries that cannot be called countries at war, I mean not in the traditional sense of a war," Jean-Francois Julliard, the secretary general of Reporters Without Borders, told APTN. "We have the feeling that murderers of journalists are among organized crime gangs, mafia, militias rather than in conflict zones."The NSW government has introduced a legal definition of consent to make it clear that unless a person freely and voluntarily agrees to sex, it is sexual assault, Attorney-General John Hatzistergos said in a statement."There are no excuses for offenders claiming they believed the other person consented because she or he was too drunk to say no," Hatzistergos said.New Year's Eve traditionally sees an increase in sexual assaults, he said."Those who seek to take advantage of people during tonight's festivities face being thrown in jail for up to 20 years for aggravated sexual assault and face life in prison for gang rape," he said on Friday.Hatzistergos urged revelers to know their limits, take care of their friends and not accept drinks from strangers.More than 2,600 police will be on Sydney's streets on the dangerous night for sexual assault, particularly in the known party spots.

The central government has allocated over 2.5 billion yuan ($379 million) as dedicated funds for the allowance policy in 2010, according to a circular jointly issued by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Minister of Finance in late November.According to the circular, orphans under the age of 18 living in eastern, central or western regions will receive monthly allowance of 180 yuan, 270 yuan or 360 yuan respectively.The policy was part of China's still-to-be-perfected orphan support system.A sound orphan support system that suits China's economic-social development level would be a "milestone" in the progress of the country's children welfare initiative, said Hui.He said family members and relatives of orphans, welfare institutions, governments and charity groups should make concerted efforts to guarantee orphans' rights to education, healthcare, employment and housing.On the last trading day of 2010, the Chinese currency, the yuan, strengthened to a record high for a second consecutive day, at 6.6227 per US dollar, after 11 consecutive days of gains.The central parity rate of the currency, also known as the renminbi (RMB), was set two basis points stronger than Thursday's 6.6229, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trading system.China's central bank announced on June 19 it would further reform the formation mechanism of the yuan exchange rate to improve its flexibility.Chinese Vice Premier Hui Linagyu Thursday urged efforts be made to supervise the distribution and use of the living allowance for orphans.Tighter supervision should be maintained to make sure that basic living allowances were paid to orphans in a timely and sufficient manner, said Hui in Beijing at a high-level conference discussing the work to support orphans.

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